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...Some of that success can be attributed to improvements in freezing techniques, says Dr. Hannu Martikainen, the study's lead author and the chief physician at the University of Oulu Division of Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology. "Now we have more and more experience, and we are doing more and more frozen cycles," he says. He points out the importance of not only transferring but also preserving each embryo on its own, which makes it possible to use frozen embryos one at a time rather than in bigger batches. "[If you transfer] three embryos in each cycle, you very soon...
...hope of having a child is not one that most infertile patients and even some doctors would care to quantify - or put a price tag on. "Some clinics still have a so-called guarantee that if the patient is not getting pregnant, they get their money back," says Martikainen. "In those cases, of course, the doctor tries to get the patient pregnant at any price...
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